Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain , though we may not think it , has one of the smallest rubbish-per-head rates for industrialized countries in the world . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the above is transcribed into fine-class phonemes and , as we saw in the previous section , we can not expect the front end to be so accurate , and indeed we may not want it to try . |
| 3 | We may not want it but the government is going to demand it and we as custodians of the services on the part of the people of Cambridge , are going to have to do as sensibly and sensitively as possible . |
| 4 | ‘ We may not bring them down but we can undermine their authority . ’ |
| 5 | This too is research , even though we may not honour it with the name . |
| 6 | In fact , we are all familiar with franchises , although we may not realise it . |
| 7 | She I said , we may not ring them back |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , a pattern , of course we may not find it at once — ’ |
| 9 | We may not let you pass . |
| 10 | We may not let you pass . |
| 11 | We may not obtain it , or we may obtain it and find it renders us unhappy ; we must still believe in it . |
| 12 | We may surely find her a place . |
| 13 | ‘ Who knows , we may even foster her . |
| 14 | Perhaps we may even persuade him to take my place at the chess-board . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And remember that we may already know it . |
| 16 | I think if you come and see us tomorrow , we may yet surprise you . |
| 17 | If your set-up is one of the runners-up we may also feature it on the pages of PFK . |
| 18 | I think that , without convicting her of telling taradiddles to improve her genealogy , we may well suspect her of having allowed Kay to mislead herself . |
| 19 | We may well find it significant that there is no evidence during this period of any attempt on his part to acquaint himself with Wagner 's own voluminous theoretical prose . |
| 20 | Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit , that we may perfectly love thee and worthily magnify thy holy name ; through Jesus Christ our Lord . |
| 21 | Of course , much music has been composed using only scale and chord patterns , and if they have rhythmic distinction we may still find them useful . |
| 22 | In considering the health care provision agencies we may usefully divide them into two main types : primary care and secondary care . |
| 23 | Then they will baptise those they evangelise in the name of the Father , the Son , and the Holy Spirit ( 28:19 ) , but in the meantime they are given one trial run , if we may so call it , when they are sent out on a missionary journey ( Matt. 10:20 ) . |
| 24 | And it tends to be used in terms of the tolerances that we 've got on our drawings the word quality which has been amplified into the arena where we may actually use it to describe the whole management of the operation , not the management of the , or the second part of the tolerance of the specification . |
| 25 | These physical stereotypes , too , have been ‘ sold ’ to us and we may never question them , despite the considerable evidence disproving them . |
| 26 | Once again , though , Trevor Proby received his marching orders and I fear we may never see him in a ‘ Stiffs ’ shirt again . |
| 27 | Thus the gist of Spinoza 's argument , for example , is that whereas in ordinary circumstances we may indeed find it useful and necessary to distinguish between essential and accidental properties , metaphysically such a distinction can not be upheld . |
| 28 | Though there are variations of this view , and disagreements among its adherents , we may validly characterize it as sentence linguistics , because it confines its inquiries to what happens within sentences . |
| 29 | If on my time you prepare that waste wood into bundles such as any man could store at home , and if in your own time you will carry those bundles around the town and distribute them free , to rich and poor alike — but not to any man who was landlord to any among us — we may together teach them — ’ The rest of his words were drowned in a universal roar of delight . |
| 30 | We should instead encourage them to press ahead , because it is a temporary difficulty , the clock is ticking towards the day when John Smith is Prime Minister , will convert that opt-out into an opt-in . |